1. Introduction to measuring technologies for nanomedical system interaction with cells
1. The importance of quantitative or at least semi-quantitative single cell measurements to detect presence and location of nanomedical systems
2. Below "optical limit" imaging
3. Requirements on the NMS to have X-ray dense, fluorescent, metallic, or magnetic cores
4. Can you study living cells?
2. Technologies – Advantages and disadvantages
1. Flow cytometry – a "zero order" imaging device
2. Scanning and Transmission electron microscopy
3. Confocal microscopy – one and two-photon
4. Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) Imaging
5. Atomic Force Microscopy
6. Magnetic Sorting/MRI contrast agents for in-vivo imaging

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Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• James Leary (2007), "BME 695N Lecture 8: Technologies for measuring nanomedical systems on/within cells," http://nanohub.org/resources/3265.

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1. biomedical engineering
2. course lecture
3. nanomedicine